Description: Three fragments (a, two contiguous pieces, together w:
0.11 x h:
0.12 x d:
0.025;
b, w:
0.11 x h:
0.6 x d:
0.025) of a marble
panel.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second-third century: rustic capitals; a. line 1, not measurable, line 2, 0.025, line 3, 0.02, traces of rubrication; b, 0.02.
Date: Second-third century CE
Findspot:
Ptolemais:
in the fill over the Villa of the Four Seasons; found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Tolmeita Museum.
Apparatus
a.1: Not reported by Kraeling.a.2: ] . AETI[ Kraeling, 1962
a.3: ]. PTOLEMA[ Kraeling, 1962
a.4: Not reported by Kraeling
b: ]X NUM[ Kraeling, 1962
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(A reference to the people of Ptolemais)
Commentary
a.2: perhaps from the name Laetus, but possibly from laeti[tia.
b: perhaps ex numero from numerus = a military unit, but nummus, indicating a sum of money or numerarius = an accountant, are other possibilities.
Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 13, and pl. LII C 3 (a only).
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Text a, main fragment (1958, Kraeling, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 48639)
Fig. 2. Text b (1958, Kraeling, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 49626)